Flood (producer)

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Flood , actually Mark Ellis (born August 16, 1960 in Manchester , Great Britain ) is a British sound engineer and music producer who has worked with Depeche Mode , Thirty Seconds to Mars , U2 , Erasure and the Nine Inch Nails , among others .

Life

While still playing bass in the British mod band The Lambrettas , he began training as a sound engineer in the Morgan Studios in London in 1978 . The name Flood has its origins in this period. Ellis was known in the studio for constantly supplying the artists and technicians with tea, while his colleague didn't and the two were nicknamed Flood  = 'flood' and Drought ( drought  = 'drought') by Chris Tsangarides when recording for The Cure. ) received. Further stations of his training were the Marcus Studio and the Trident Studios. He completed his training in 1981 as an assistant engineer on the album Movement produced by Martin Hannett for New Order . In 1982, he oversaw the debut album With Sympathy by Ministry . He then worked as a sound engineer for the Some Bizarre label for their artists Soft Cell , Marc and the Mambas , Psychic TV and Cabaret Voltaire , before moving to the Mute label. For Mute he worked as a sound engineer and later also as a producer. His first producer roles included The Firstborn is Dead for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in 1985 and Wonderland for Erasure in 1986 .

In 1987 Flood achieved his commercial breakthrough when he worked as a sound engineer on the album The Joshua Tree by the Irish band U2 at the side of producer Brian Eno . This was followed by work as one of the numerous producers for Nine Inch Nails ( Pretty Hate Machine ), Depeche Mode ( Violator ) and Pop Will Eat Itself ( This is the Day ). In 1993 he produced the album Zooropa by U2 alongside Brian Eno . He produced a variety of different releases from bands such as the Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, the Smashing Pumpkins , PJ Harvey , the Sneaker Pimps , a-ha , Placebo , The Killers , Sigur Rós and Glasvegas .

Flood is known as a versatile producer without being restricted to one genre. He oversaw albums from the genres of post-punk , synth-pop and industrial rock and is therefore considered one of the pioneers of sound for alternative rock . In addition to his own studio The Bedroom, he and Alan Moulder have been running the Assault & Battery 2 Studio in London, which emerged from Morgan Studios since 2008.

Discography (selection)

  • 1982: Torment & Torreros , Marc and the Mambas (Some Bizzarre)
  • 1984: Micro-Phonies , Cabaret Voltaire (Some Bizzarre)
  • 1985: The Firstborn Is Dead , Nick Cave (Mute)
  • 1986: Wonderland , Erasure (Mute)
  • 1987: The Circus , Erasure (Mute)
  • 1989: Pretty Hate Machine , Nine Inch Nails (TVT)
  • 1989: This Is the Day , Pop Will Eat Itself (RCA)
  • 1989: Soundclash, Renegade Soundwave (Mute)
  • 1990: Violator , Depeche Mode (Mute)
  • 1992: Broken , Nine Inch Nails (TVT)
  • 1993: Songs of Faith and Devotion , Depeche Mode (Mute)
  • 1993: Zooropa , U2 (Iceland)
  • 1994: The Downward Spiral , Nine Inch Nails (TVT)
  • 1995: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness , Smashing Pumpkins (Virgin)
  • 1995: To Bring You My Love , PJ Harvey (Iceland)
  • 1997: POP , U2 (Iceland)
  • 2000: MACHINA / The Machines of God , Smashing Pumpkins (Virgin)
  • 2000: Loveboat , Erasure (Mute)
  • 2004: Any Minute Now , Soulwax (PIAS / Rough Trade)
  • 2005: Analogue , a-ha (Universal)
  • 2006: Meds , Placebo (Virgin)
  • 2006: Sam's Town , The Killers (Iceland)
  • 2008: Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust , Sigur Rós (XL / EMI)
  • 2009: In This Light and on This Evening , Editors
  • 2009: This Is War , Thirty Seconds to Mars (EMI)
  • 2010: Let England Shake , PJ Harvey
  • 2011: Euphoric /// Heartbreak \\\ , Glasvegas

literature

  • Dave Thompson: Alternative Rock . Miller Freeman, San Francisco 2000, ISBN 0-87930-607-6 . , Pp. 768-69
  • David N. Howard: Sonic Alchemy - Visionary Music Producers and Their Maverick Recordings . Hal Leonard, Milwaukee 2004, ISBN 0-634-05560-7 . , Chapter 9 - The Order of Disorder: Martin Hannett, Flood and Steve Albini

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard James Burgess : The Art of Music Production . Omnibus Press, London 2005, ISBN 1-84449-431-4 . , P. 20
  2. ↑ Paul Tingen: FLOOD & HOWIE B: Producing U2's Pop. In: soundonsound.com. July 1997, accessed September 8, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Miloco: Assault & Battery 2 insight: Interview with Flood and Alan Moulder. In: milocostudios.com. August 2008, accessed September 8, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Flood
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ellis, Mark (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sound engineer and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester , UK